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The modular era has arrived and NEAR is set to take centre stage. Introducing the NEAR Data Availability Layer. Hot off the press at NEARCON23, NEAR DA is set to launch to offer secure, cost-effective data availability for ETH rollups. 🌐 NEAR DA marks NEAR's entry into the modular...

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LUCIFER 🚀😈2 years ago

@Portalcoin keep engaging 🩵

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#CO2.X 🌐 50.000.000 $XRP 🌻 @GlobalTradeFin

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Nicely done ✅👍🌍

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great news :)

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DAOvid Morrison (davidmo.near) 🕯2 years ago

@sassal0x should get in @thedailygwei

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Nikolai Golub2 years ago

I don't want to sound like party pooper, but can you please fix broken links?

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Jotaro🐸2 years ago

Still old dead chain and need fame

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🔥🔥🔥

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NEAR DA is great news for the Web3 ecosystem. I thnk it will help Ethereum projects develop stronger, bringing many benefits for users.

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This is just what got me looking at it again, just to discover a (very much) thriving ecosystem, full of interesting things happening at the same time. I’ll mention a few, but there is (much) more. Technically speaking, Near is a high-performance blockchain, with really low fees and one of the fastest finalities, with 600ms block time and approximately 1.8s finality. It also has my favorite architecture for internet-scale scalability, using sharding, while keeping a high decentralization standard. As a learning programmer, Near also has one of the best dev experiences (in my limited opinion). The documentation is clear, has a logical journey, presenting from the basic anatomy in details to more complex SDKs and tools. I’m also in love with the near-cli-rs. A command line interface program written in Rust for seamless interaction with the Near blockchain. Allowing wallet creation, chain query, sending transactions, staking, smart contract calls, and more. Near Intents. This was the second thing to get my attention, while studying the project again, and it sets a whole new standard for blockchain interactions, especially cross-chain. Basically, users can declare an intention (for example, swap Ethereum-USDT to Bitcoin) and a network of solvers, running on Near, will find the best path to accomplish this task. We recently saw an impressive 465k-worth swap happening in exactly this example, paying 0.55% of trading fees to thorswap.near and swapkit.near. According to a Dune Dashboard, the protocol accumulates nearly $400 million in volume since its launch not long ago, in November 2024. *obs.: half this volume was achieved in the last month. Massive! Near Intents is possible due to two other very interesting things: (i) Chain abstraction, and (ii) a solid AI infrastructure. Chain abstraction (via Chain Signatures) is a powerful interoperability feature, allowing Near to friendly connect different blockchains as if they were part of a single network. Users and devs benefit from wallet, address, fees, and cross-chain bridges abstractions - not even noticing they are interacting with multiple chains. One wallet that powers everything. Powered by Near. On AI, Near is just built differently. Not for the hype, but for the solution. The team has been looking for AI solutions much before the ChatGPT fever. Actually, they started as an AI company, pivoting to blockchain later. So, being one of the most promising networks for the growing AI economy was just the natural path to follow. There is an extensive and super complete research piece on that topic, recently published by Reflexivity Research (Reflexivity Research) on July 1st. It presents Near as an AI-optimized blockchain, covering AITP, Shade Agents, x402, Near Intents, and more. Definitely worth the reading. Wrapping up this content with one more aspect that really matters to me is how Near remains truthful to decentralization, data ownership, censorship-resistance and open-source primitives that have been increasingly abandoned by other key players. A simple example of that is how the Near Foundation decided to deprecate its public APIs, encouraging the surge of a more decentralized and competitive market of SaaS projects, with a highlight to Lava Network, that recently appeared in my timeline talking about that. DeFi is also huge on Near, leveraging all the previous properties I mentioned, creating a truly decentralized liquidity pool via Rhea Finance, connected with other chains like BTC, Ethereum, ZCash, and more. All that contributes to Near having the second-largest monthly active addresses, with nearly 50 million, only losing to Solana’s nearly 90 million. In the meantime, NEAR, the token, is not even at the 30rd position by market cap. Crazy stuff. To (finally) wrap it up, I also want to mention Near’s consensus decentralization. While having a low node-count, the network has a Nakamoto Coefficient of 11, which is not bad at all. Surely, there is still room for improvement, which is possible as becoming a validator is accessible staking and hardware-wise. If you liked this content, make sure to click the like bottom and share it around. Follow me on X or subscribe to my YouTube channel, both at vinibarbosabr. See ya!

Vini B |「 thecoding 」

40,183 views • 1 year ago

NEAR AI Ecosystem – “What Did You Ship This Week?” Ep. 7 A big week across the NEAR AI ecosystem with updates on personalized data agents, TypeScript tooling, crowdsourced AI data, and non-custodial flows for token coordination + much more. Timestamps & Highlights: 00:00 – Intro by Cameron.near🇺🇸 from NEAR AI 01:00 – 𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓✨🐾ヤᵇᵃ ͥ ꜝ9d from PublicAI explains how their platform lets users earn stablecoins and points by uploading and verifying native language audio clips. Data builders can now claim earnings directly to a NEAR Protocol wallet. Public beta is live. 09:35 – Matt Hamilton from ASIMOV Protocol demos their CLI tools for uploading structured datasets to NEAR, plus new knowledge graph visualizations and early experiments transcribing voice into semantic graphs. 15:55 – @tahpot_au from Verida 💜 shows how developers can access private user data for AI agents using the Verida Vault. Users retain full control over their data, with API keys gated by permission. 25:25 – Zahidul Islam from Jutsu | Work Smarter with AI Agents drops updates on the NEAR AI TypeScript SDK. One-command agent deployment, fully local dev support, and matching features with the Python SDK. Also demoed new AI-generated video tooling with Postt. 34:20 – Matt Lockyer from Proximity Labs shares the launch of their Base naming agent Basednames. Users post on X to mint names, pay with Bankr, and finalize with verified chain signatures powered by NEAR. All non-custodial. All live on Base. 50:35 – Charles previews Divvy Agent. Users can set portfolio growth and swap thresholds with natural language. Latest update adds persistent memory, improved LLM matching, and MPC integration for safe, automated execution. 59:36 – Cameron.near🇺🇸 closes out with updates from the NEAR AI core team. Hiring in progress, governance agents coming soon, and progress on privacy tooling and agent infra powering the NEAR AI Hub. The future is NEAR - the blockchain for AI. Catch the full replay:
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NEAR AI Ecosystem – “What Did You Ship This Week?” Ep. 7 A big week across the NEAR AI ecosystem with updates on personalized data agents, TypeScript tooling, crowdsourced AI data, and non-custodial flows for token coordination + much more. Timestamps & Highlights: 00:00 – Intro by Cameron.near🇺🇸 from NEAR AI 01:00 – 𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓✨🐾ヤᵇᵃ ͥ ꜝ9d from PublicAI explains how their platform lets users earn stablecoins and points by uploading and verifying native language audio clips. Data builders can now claim earnings directly to a NEAR Protocol wallet. Public beta is live. 09:35 – Matt Hamilton from ASIMOV Protocol demos their CLI tools for uploading structured datasets to NEAR, plus new knowledge graph visualizations and early experiments transcribing voice into semantic graphs. 15:55 – @tahpot_au from Verida 💜 shows how developers can access private user data for AI agents using the Verida Vault. Users retain full control over their data, with API keys gated by permission. 25:25 – Zahidul Islam from Jutsu | Work Smarter with AI Agents drops updates on the NEAR AI TypeScript SDK. One-command agent deployment, fully local dev support, and matching features with the Python SDK. Also demoed new AI-generated video tooling with Postt. 34:20 – Matt Lockyer from Proximity Labs shares the launch of their Base naming agent Basednames. Users post on X to mint names, pay with Bankr, and finalize with verified chain signatures powered by NEAR. All non-custodial. All live on Base. 50:35 – Charles previews Divvy Agent. Users can set portfolio growth and swap thresholds with natural language. Latest update adds persistent memory, improved LLM matching, and MPC integration for safe, automated execution. 59:36 – Cameron.near🇺🇸 closes out with updates from the NEAR AI core team. Hiring in progress, governance agents coming soon, and progress on privacy tooling and agent infra powering the NEAR AI Hub. The future is NEAR - the blockchain for AI. Catch the full replay:

NEARWEEK

35,143 views • 1 year ago

Just finished an absolute monster of a podcast with Justin Drake, and it’s packed with brain-melting insights on the future of Ethereum. Here are the juiciest takeaways from Part I 👇 Ethereum’s future could turn the L1 into a rollup itself and making it the best type of rollup. Justin lays out how the L1, L2s, and new designs like Beamchain, native rollups, and based sequencing all come together into a unified vision for Ethereum as the credibly neutral internet of finance. What’s Broken Today • L2s are siloed — synchronous composability is dead. • Most rely on centralized sequencers, multisigs & slow exit bridges. • L2-native assets break Ethereum’s trustless bridge model. • Governance delays, security councils, & EVM reimplementation = attack surfaces. The Fix: Ethereum-native Infrastructure • Based Rollups: Use Ethereum L1 validators as the sequencer. Removes centralization risk, restores censorship resistance. • Native Rollups: No more reimplementing the EVM. No more Security Council multisigs. They inherit Ethereum’s execution layer by design. •Preconfirmations: Users get fast UX (e.g., instant trading feedback) via ETH-backed inclusion guarantees from L1 validators, with slashing if they lie. • Real-Time ZK Proofs: Slot-by-slot proving is here. ZK-enabled rollups with instant finality are becoming possible. To get there, Ethereum is moving toward real-time, slot-by-slot proving using ZK SNARKs. This enables constant-time verification and removes the need for validators to re-execute blocks. Native rollups use a new EXECUTE precompile to introspect and reuse Ethereum’s state transition function. There is no EVM emulation, no governance lag, and no reliance on Security Councils. Preconfirmations offer ETH-backed execution guarantees per slot, priced to offset MEV opportunity loss, while based rollups decentralize sequencing by aligning with Ethereum’s validator set. Beamchain pushes this vision further: a clean-slate Ethereum L1 design that is post-quantum secure, radically simplified (validators could run on a Raspberry Pi), and ossified through optimality. It proposes gigagas/s throughput via ZK proofs, validator statelessness, and Attester-Proposer-Separation (APS) to maximize decentralization and censorship resistance, allowing Ethereum L1 to scale as a high-performance rollup itself. If you're building on Ethereum or betting on its future, this convo is mandatory listening. To be continued in Part II....
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Just finished an absolute monster of a podcast with Justin Drake, and it’s packed with brain-melting insights on the future of Ethereum. Here are the juiciest takeaways from Part I 👇 Ethereum’s future could turn the L1 into a rollup itself and making it the best type of rollup. Justin lays out how the L1, L2s, and new designs like Beamchain, native rollups, and based sequencing all come together into a unified vision for Ethereum as the credibly neutral internet of finance. What’s Broken Today • L2s are siloed — synchronous composability is dead. • Most rely on centralized sequencers, multisigs & slow exit bridges. • L2-native assets break Ethereum’s trustless bridge model. • Governance delays, security councils, & EVM reimplementation = attack surfaces. The Fix: Ethereum-native Infrastructure • Based Rollups: Use Ethereum L1 validators as the sequencer. Removes centralization risk, restores censorship resistance. • Native Rollups: No more reimplementing the EVM. No more Security Council multisigs. They inherit Ethereum’s execution layer by design. •Preconfirmations: Users get fast UX (e.g., instant trading feedback) via ETH-backed inclusion guarantees from L1 validators, with slashing if they lie. • Real-Time ZK Proofs: Slot-by-slot proving is here. ZK-enabled rollups with instant finality are becoming possible. To get there, Ethereum is moving toward real-time, slot-by-slot proving using ZK SNARKs. This enables constant-time verification and removes the need for validators to re-execute blocks. Native rollups use a new EXECUTE precompile to introspect and reuse Ethereum’s state transition function. There is no EVM emulation, no governance lag, and no reliance on Security Councils. Preconfirmations offer ETH-backed execution guarantees per slot, priced to offset MEV opportunity loss, while based rollups decentralize sequencing by aligning with Ethereum’s validator set. Beamchain pushes this vision further: a clean-slate Ethereum L1 design that is post-quantum secure, radically simplified (validators could run on a Raspberry Pi), and ossified through optimality. It proposes gigagas/s throughput via ZK proofs, validator statelessness, and Attester-Proposer-Separation (APS) to maximize decentralization and censorship resistance, allowing Ethereum L1 to scale as a high-performance rollup itself. If you're building on Ethereum or betting on its future, this convo is mandatory listening. To be continued in Part II....

Luis

17,653 views • 1 year ago

Introducing the Ethereum is for AI Hackathon, organized by Virtuals Protocol with strategic support from the Ethereum Foundation Founder Success program. $100,000 in prizes for the most advanced AI agent deployments. AI agents are positioned to become Ethereum’s most demanding and valuable power users, easoning, transacting, and operating autonomously, with Ethereum as their trustless settlement layer. This is the foundation of the next era of onchain intelligence. From Robotics to DePIN, privacy, consumer AI, DeFAI, and research, the hackathon is designed to accelerate specialized agents into sovereign, self-sustaining economies. As part of this initiative, five technical workshops led by Virtuals Protocol and the Ethereumfndn will cover advanced architectures, deployment strategies, and scaling pathways for AI-native systems. Build on Ethereum. Launch on Virtuals. Secure funding, prizes, and recognition from the most advanced agent ecosystem in the market. Ethereum is ready for AI. Will you be the one to build it? Access now:
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Introducing the Ethereum is for AI Hackathon, organized by Virtuals Protocol with strategic support from the Ethereum Foundation Founder Success program. $100,000 in prizes for the most advanced AI agent deployments. AI agents are positioned to become Ethereum’s most demanding and valuable power users, easoning, transacting, and operating autonomously, with Ethereum as their trustless settlement layer. This is the foundation of the next era of onchain intelligence. From Robotics to DePIN, privacy, consumer AI, DeFAI, and research, the hackathon is designed to accelerate specialized agents into sovereign, self-sustaining economies. As part of this initiative, five technical workshops led by Virtuals Protocol and the Ethereumfndn will cover advanced architectures, deployment strategies, and scaling pathways for AI-native systems. Build on Ethereum. Launch on Virtuals. Secure funding, prizes, and recognition from the most advanced agent ecosystem in the market. Ethereum is ready for AI. Will you be the one to build it? Access now:

Virtuals Protocol

103,103 views • 11 months ago

"In my opinion the Ethereum network is much more secure in the long term. There's no obvious way to do a Bitcoin-like attack on it" Duke Professor Campbell Harvey on why you can't pull off the Bitcoin attack on Ethereum "This is important because most tokenized assets reside on either the Ethereum blockchain or Ethereum compatible blockchains. But Ethereum has a different method, there's no mining anymore, it's proof of stake. You'd need to take over at least a third of the existing Ethereum, and that turns out to be really hard to do" "Much of the Ethereum is staked, there's a huge queue to go into staking and not much to actually come out. About 65% of the supply is available to unstake, so to get a third you have to buy over half of the existing supply. That's going to be very expensive and would drive the price of Ether up dramatically" "The same trade we talked about for Bitcoin, where you buy the equipment and short the Bitcoin, doesn't work for Ethereum. Because you're buying the Ether, and then if you're selling, it's a wash. So there's no obvious way to do a Bitcoin-like attack on the network"
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"In my opinion the Ethereum network is much more secure in the long term. There's no obvious way to do a Bitcoin-like attack on it" Duke Professor Campbell Harvey on why you can't pull off the Bitcoin attack on Ethereum "This is important because most tokenized assets reside on either the Ethereum blockchain or Ethereum compatible blockchains. But Ethereum has a different method, there's no mining anymore, it's proof of stake. You'd need to take over at least a third of the existing Ethereum, and that turns out to be really hard to do" "Much of the Ethereum is staked, there's a huge queue to go into staking and not much to actually come out. About 65% of the supply is available to unstake, so to get a third you have to buy over half of the existing supply. That's going to be very expensive and would drive the price of Ether up dramatically" "The same trade we talked about for Bitcoin, where you buy the equipment and short the Bitcoin, doesn't work for Ethereum. Because you're buying the Ether, and then if you're selling, it's a wash. So there's no obvious way to do a Bitcoin-like attack on the network"

The Wolf Of All Streets

59,726 views • 26 days ago

Ethereum comeback loading in Q2 2025? Last week I sat down with Tomasz K. Stańczak from Ethereum Foundation to discuss the future of Ethereum for Cointelegraph. We spoke about vitalik.eth influence, changes at the Foundation, the price of ETH and its future. Timestamps for ease of viewing 👇 please share widely! 0:25 Intro 0:47 Stepping into leadership: How has the transition been? 1:31 Is Ethereum feeling pressure from newer blockchains? 3:08 Can Ethereum stay unified across L1 and L2? 5:40 What’s the long-term incentive to keep running Ethereum validators? 7:15 Does Ethereum learn from other blockchains? 7:50 Has Ethereum fallen behind in community building? 8:40 How involved is Vitalik in Ethereum’s direction? 10:10 Could Ethereum projects ever settle on Bitcoin? 11:00 Are you optimistic about Ethereum’s future? Special thanks to EthCC - Ethereum Community Conference Ξthereum France for putting this conference together and giving us the platform to have these conversations!
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Ethereum comeback loading in Q2 2025? Last week I sat down with Tomasz K. Stańczak from Ethereum Foundation to discuss the future of Ethereum for Cointelegraph. We spoke about vitalik.eth influence, changes at the Foundation, the price of ETH and its future. Timestamps for ease of viewing 👇 please share widely! 0:25 Intro 0:47 Stepping into leadership: How has the transition been? 1:31 Is Ethereum feeling pressure from newer blockchains? 3:08 Can Ethereum stay unified across L1 and L2? 5:40 What’s the long-term incentive to keep running Ethereum validators? 7:15 Does Ethereum learn from other blockchains? 7:50 Has Ethereum fallen behind in community building? 8:40 How involved is Vitalik in Ethereum’s direction? 10:10 Could Ethereum projects ever settle on Bitcoin? 11:00 Are you optimistic about Ethereum’s future? Special thanks to EthCC - Ethereum Community Conference Ξthereum France for putting this conference together and giving us the platform to have these conversations!

Gareth Jenkinson

29,055 views • 1 year ago

My 100 second elevator pitch on ETH to tradFi. Bitcoin is 1 asset - just bitcoin. Ethereum is all possible assets. Which is bigger? Gold...or all the assets in the world? Bitcoin was designed to secure one asset, just bitcoin. Ethereum is a general purpose platform designed to secure everything else: stablecoins, loans, equities, bonds, derivatives - everything in finance. The word for this is: Tokenization. People like Larry Fink are saying every stock, bond, and asset will be tokenized on a global ledger. And even he's thinking too small - tokenization isn't just the assets of the past it's the assets of the future - AI compute, personal data, social status & celebrity. Everything will be tokenized. Ethereum is a global computing network to tokenize and program any asset. Ethereum adds property rights to the internet. Tokenization can and will happen on other platforms, but Ethereum is positioned the strongest contender to ride the tokenization wave. 100 million people own ETH. 100 thousand developers actively contribute to the code. Already, Ethereum settles more annually than the Visa network…and it’s just getting started. Now let's talk about ETH. The cryptocurrency of Ethereum is called ETH and has investible economics, including an algorithmic buy-back and dividend program that drives billions per year in earnings to ETH holders. This number grows as the network expands. You can build a DCF model on ETH as you word with a stock like Nvidia. And because ETH is extremely secure and decentralized like Bitcoin, more and more people are seeing ETH as a compliment to Bitcoin as a non-sovereign store of value. While bitcoin has greater certainty of supply, Ethereum pays a dividend and is deflationary, with the upside of the entire token economy. Bitcoin is exposure to digital gold. Ethereum is exposure to everything else. I own both. But if I could only pick one, I'd pick the superset. I’d pick ETH.
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My 100 second elevator pitch on ETH to tradFi. Bitcoin is 1 asset - just bitcoin. Ethereum is all possible assets. Which is bigger? Gold...or all the assets in the world? Bitcoin was designed to secure one asset, just bitcoin. Ethereum is a general purpose platform designed to secure everything else: stablecoins, loans, equities, bonds, derivatives - everything in finance. The word for this is: Tokenization. People like Larry Fink are saying every stock, bond, and asset will be tokenized on a global ledger. And even he's thinking too small - tokenization isn't just the assets of the past it's the assets of the future - AI compute, personal data, social status & celebrity. Everything will be tokenized. Ethereum is a global computing network to tokenize and program any asset. Ethereum adds property rights to the internet. Tokenization can and will happen on other platforms, but Ethereum is positioned the strongest contender to ride the tokenization wave. 100 million people own ETH. 100 thousand developers actively contribute to the code. Already, Ethereum settles more annually than the Visa network…and it’s just getting started. Now let's talk about ETH. The cryptocurrency of Ethereum is called ETH and has investible economics, including an algorithmic buy-back and dividend program that drives billions per year in earnings to ETH holders. This number grows as the network expands. You can build a DCF model on ETH as you word with a stock like Nvidia. And because ETH is extremely secure and decentralized like Bitcoin, more and more people are seeing ETH as a compliment to Bitcoin as a non-sovereign store of value. While bitcoin has greater certainty of supply, Ethereum pays a dividend and is deflationary, with the upside of the entire token economy. Bitcoin is exposure to digital gold. Ethereum is exposure to everything else. I own both. But if I could only pick one, I'd pick the superset. I’d pick ETH.

RYAN SΞAN ADAMS - rsa.eth 🦄

73,912 views • 2 years ago

BlackRock’s former Head of Crypto explains how he pitches ETH to Wall Street “The first thing we do is explain the Ethereum opportunity. Stablecoins, which are today about $310 billion, are going to trillions. Tokenized assets today are about $32 billion and going to trillions as well. Institutional DeFi adoption is happening like we’ve never seen before. We’ll get to agentic in a minute, but explaining to them — and they agree wholeheartedly — that the Ethereum ecosystem is going to be the future settlement layer for finance is the first step.” After explaining that Ethereum is going to be the global world ledger, Joseph Chalom, who is now the CEO of the $1.5 billion Ethereum treasury company Sharplink, talks about ETH the asset: “As the Ethereum ecosystem grows, you need more Ether to secure and settle these transactions. Therefore, Ether ends up becoming a trust commodity. We start with the principles and fundamentals . . . What we don’t do is make up numbers and talk about short-term price predictions for Ether.” The other thing Joseph does not do is compare Ether to Bitcoin. “The second narrative that people use typically is that [Ethereum] is ‘little brother’ to ‘big brother’ Bitcoin and that ETH is just some relative coefficient of the value of BTC and they need to trade together. What we’re trying to explain is that there is intrinsic value and Ether is going to be the trust commodity that is going to secure the future of finance . . . The number one thing to do is not make up numbers. And then number two, [Ethereum] is not a derivative of Bitcoin. It has intrinsic value to the future of the financial system.”
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BlackRock’s former Head of Crypto explains how he pitches ETH to Wall Street “The first thing we do is explain the Ethereum opportunity. Stablecoins, which are today about $310 billion, are going to trillions. Tokenized assets today are about $32 billion and going to trillions as well. Institutional DeFi adoption is happening like we’ve never seen before. We’ll get to agentic in a minute, but explaining to them — and they agree wholeheartedly — that the Ethereum ecosystem is going to be the future settlement layer for finance is the first step.” After explaining that Ethereum is going to be the global world ledger, Joseph Chalom, who is now the CEO of the $1.5 billion Ethereum treasury company Sharplink, talks about ETH the asset: “As the Ethereum ecosystem grows, you need more Ether to secure and settle these transactions. Therefore, Ether ends up becoming a trust commodity. We start with the principles and fundamentals . . . What we don’t do is make up numbers and talk about short-term price predictions for Ether.” The other thing Joseph does not do is compare Ether to Bitcoin. “The second narrative that people use typically is that [Ethereum] is ‘little brother’ to ‘big brother’ Bitcoin and that ETH is just some relative coefficient of the value of BTC and they need to trade together. What we’re trying to explain is that there is intrinsic value and Ether is going to be the trust commodity that is going to secure the future of finance . . . The number one thing to do is not make up numbers. And then number two, [Ethereum] is not a derivative of Bitcoin. It has intrinsic value to the future of the financial system.”

Etherealize

56,783 views • 5 months ago

We’re breaking down barriers with Sophon to bring consumer entertainment onchain 📺 Sophon will use Avail DA and Avail’s custom Light Clients to provide the scale to meet the new era of onchain entertainment. Lightweight, fast, secure infrastructure - for all consumer applications. More below 👇 Sophon is a user-friendly ecosystem for entertainment apps that aims to enrich the digital world—covering gaming, social media, art, AI, prediction markets, and more. A key feature of this partnership is the integration of Avail's Light Client technology. Sophon will use its own branded light nodes that enable users to verify transactions directly from their phone or laptop, without relying on a centralized RPC provider or someone else’s full node. This makes decentralized applications secure, trust minimised and accessible for users and and cost-effective for builders. Avail's modular Data Availability (DA) layer will be a crucial component of Sophon’s platform. With Avail, Sophon ensures that a broad range of entertainment apps can be run securely, with scalable data availability, fast transaction finality, and sub-second completion times for users. This collaboration aligns modular scaling technologies to unlock ultra-fast transactions, low fees, and expansive decentralized entertainment applications. Your network, your rules powered by Avail Read more about the integration here:
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We’re breaking down barriers with Sophon to bring consumer entertainment onchain 📺 Sophon will use Avail DA and Avail’s custom Light Clients to provide the scale to meet the new era of onchain entertainment. Lightweight, fast, secure infrastructure - for all consumer applications. More below 👇 Sophon is a user-friendly ecosystem for entertainment apps that aims to enrich the digital world—covering gaming, social media, art, AI, prediction markets, and more. A key feature of this partnership is the integration of Avail's Light Client technology. Sophon will use its own branded light nodes that enable users to verify transactions directly from their phone or laptop, without relying on a centralized RPC provider or someone else’s full node. This makes decentralized applications secure, trust minimised and accessible for users and and cost-effective for builders. Avail's modular Data Availability (DA) layer will be a crucial component of Sophon’s platform. With Avail, Sophon ensures that a broad range of entertainment apps can be run securely, with scalable data availability, fast transaction finality, and sub-second completion times for users. This collaboration aligns modular scaling technologies to unlock ultra-fast transactions, low fees, and expansive decentralized entertainment applications. Your network, your rules powered by Avail Read more about the integration here:

Avail

97,417 views • 1 year ago

How NEAR Intents are Solving Crypto's Biggest Problems | Free the Money Ep. 36 Alex Shevchenko is the Co-founder and CEO of Aurora Labs and Defuse Labs, the team behind NEAR Intents, the universal liquidity protocol for on-chain markets and tokenized assets. With a PhD in Applied Physics, Alex Shevchenko 🇺🇦 has been building blockchain infrastructure since 2015 and helped launch Rainbow Bridge, Aurora, and NEAR Intents. Today, NEAR Intents’ infrastructure handles the majority of cross-chain trading volume outside same-asset transfers. •Why blockchain fragmentation is crypto's biggest obstacle to mainstream adoption •How NEAR Intents creates a universal liquidity layer across blockchains •What a fully agentic economy actually looks like and why AI agents will need their own financial infrastructure •Why open AI models are catching up to Big Tech and why personal AI could become the future •Why nearly $16 trillion in real-world assets (RWAs) could be tokenized by 2030 and why interoperability will be critical •How NEAR's ~$79 million in daily volume generates an average of ~$158,000 in daily $NEAR buybacks •Near's Confidential Intents: private cross-chain trading using a private shard and trusted execution environments (TEEs) •Why the CLARITY Act could accelerate institutional adoption and bring new capital into crypto •Why $470 billion worth of Bitcoin is exposed to quantum attacks and how NEAR Protocol is preparing with post-quantum cryptography Remember to subscribe and hit the bell "🔔" icon to get notifications. Check out my favorite privacy coin, Zano and follow Zano for updates. You can buy Zano seamlessly on MEXC using a VPN, or browse the full list of exchanges where Zano is available here: You can also find educational content, tutorials, and interviews on the official Zano YouTube Channel: 0:00 Alex's Journey from Applied Physics 2:25 The Origin Story Behind NEAR Intents & Cross-Chain Infrastructure 4:14 Blockchain Fragmentation: Liquidity, Markets & Why Crypto Still Feels Broken 8:59 How NEAR Intents Work Under the Hood (Chain Signatures, Settlement & Self-Custody) 12:52 Building the Financial Backbone of the Agentic Economy (MPP, AI & NEAR's Vision) 16:58 When Will the Agentic Economy Arrive? Alex's Prediction 18:16 Distillation & Open vs Closed AI Models 24:32 NEAR AI: Private Inference & Running AI Without Giving Up Your Data 25:31 $80M Daily Volume, $NEAR Buybacks & Tokenomics 29:41 Why RWAs Need NEAR Intents 33:37 The Agentic Economy Explained: Cross-Agent Interactions 37:17 AI Will Disrupt Subscription Models: The Case for Agentic Micropayments 40:00 Why Privacy Matters: Zano 42:02 Confidential Intents Explained 47:53 Why the CLARITY Act Could Unlock Institutional Capital for Crypto 51:29 Quantum Computing Threats & How NEAR Is Preparing with Post-Quantum Cryptography NEAR Protocol NEAR AI NEAR Mobile | Wallet & DEX
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How NEAR Intents are Solving Crypto's Biggest Problems | Free the Money Ep. 36 Alex Shevchenko is the Co-founder and CEO of Aurora Labs and Defuse Labs, the team behind NEAR Intents, the universal liquidity protocol for on-chain markets and tokenized assets. With a PhD in Applied Physics, Alex Shevchenko 🇺🇦 has been building blockchain infrastructure since 2015 and helped launch Rainbow Bridge, Aurora, and NEAR Intents. Today, NEAR Intents’ infrastructure handles the majority of cross-chain trading volume outside same-asset transfers. •Why blockchain fragmentation is crypto's biggest obstacle to mainstream adoption •How NEAR Intents creates a universal liquidity layer across blockchains •What a fully agentic economy actually looks like and why AI agents will need their own financial infrastructure •Why open AI models are catching up to Big Tech and why personal AI could become the future •Why nearly $16 trillion in real-world assets (RWAs) could be tokenized by 2030 and why interoperability will be critical •How NEAR's ~$79 million in daily volume generates an average of ~$158,000 in daily $NEAR buybacks •Near's Confidential Intents: private cross-chain trading using a private shard and trusted execution environments (TEEs) •Why the CLARITY Act could accelerate institutional adoption and bring new capital into crypto •Why $470 billion worth of Bitcoin is exposed to quantum attacks and how NEAR Protocol is preparing with post-quantum cryptography Remember to subscribe and hit the bell "🔔" icon to get notifications. Check out my favorite privacy coin, Zano and follow Zano for updates. You can buy Zano seamlessly on MEXC using a VPN, or browse the full list of exchanges where Zano is available here: You can also find educational content, tutorials, and interviews on the official Zano YouTube Channel: 0:00 Alex's Journey from Applied Physics 2:25 The Origin Story Behind NEAR Intents & Cross-Chain Infrastructure 4:14 Blockchain Fragmentation: Liquidity, Markets & Why Crypto Still Feels Broken 8:59 How NEAR Intents Work Under the Hood (Chain Signatures, Settlement & Self-Custody) 12:52 Building the Financial Backbone of the Agentic Economy (MPP, AI & NEAR's Vision) 16:58 When Will the Agentic Economy Arrive? Alex's Prediction 18:16 Distillation & Open vs Closed AI Models 24:32 NEAR AI: Private Inference & Running AI Without Giving Up Your Data 25:31 $80M Daily Volume, $NEAR Buybacks & Tokenomics 29:41 Why RWAs Need NEAR Intents 33:37 The Agentic Economy Explained: Cross-Agent Interactions 37:17 AI Will Disrupt Subscription Models: The Case for Agentic Micropayments 40:00 Why Privacy Matters: Zano 42:02 Confidential Intents Explained 47:53 Why the CLARITY Act Could Unlock Institutional Capital for Crypto 51:29 Quantum Computing Threats & How NEAR Is Preparing with Post-Quantum Cryptography NEAR Protocol NEAR AI NEAR Mobile | Wallet & DEX

Bri Teresi

169,759 views • 11 days ago